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A. J. MEGBE.

BooK BINDING.

(No Model.)

Patented Api. 4,1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW J. MEGEE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS H. MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.

Book-BINDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,022, dated April 4, 1882. Application inea December 5, 1881. (No model.)

lo all lwhom fit may concern:

Be it known that. I, ANDREW J. MEGEE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Book-Binding, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of photograph-albums, sample-books, and other books; and the object of myinvention is to so construct books of this class that they will be more durable than when made in the usual way, and so that when opened the leaves will lie .perfectly hat.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of three united leaves of a book made according to my invention; Fig. 2, a sectional view of the leaves as they appear before they are united; and Fig. 3 an end View, showing a number of leaves as they appear when the book has been turned back to back.

Each leaf, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, consists of a sheet, A, two narrow strips or ribs, a a', and two strips, B B'; The sheet A is of card or paste board or thick paper, and the ribs a a', or, as they are technically termed, guards,77 may be of similar material, the strips B B being of cloth or leather. The strip B overlaps one side of the sheet A to the extent shown in Figs. l and 2, and is pasted. to the said sheet as well as to the ribs, and the strip B is pasted to the opposite side of the sheet A and to the ribs.

Before the pasting of the strips B B' the rib a is arranged atashort distance from the edge of the sheet- A and the edge of the rilo a.' a short dntance from the edge of the rib a, and immediately after the pasting of the strips a depression is made by a suitable instrument on the lines a: in the strips B B', on both sides of the leaf, so that the latter will have two hinges, x x'.

In order to unite the leaves, each of the strips B Bis made ofsuch a length that after being secured to the sheetAand ribs a aof oneleat' it can be folded and glued or otherwise cemented to the sheet A and ribs a a ofthe adjoining leaf.

It has not been deemed necessary to show the back or sides of the book, as they may be the same as those of ordinary books, the back being glued to the leaves and the sides to the back in the usual manner.

In making scrap-books, Soc., according to my invention, guards or spacing-strips may be arranged between the leaves forthesnme purpose as in scrap-books as now made. The double hinges ot' the leaves preventthem from turning up when the book is opened,the leaves not only remaining flat, but the double hinges permitting the book to be turned inside out, as shown in Fig. 3, without straining the connections between the leaves and the back of the book. Hence an album or other book made according to myinvention is much more durable than one made in the ordinary way.

In some cases each leaf of the book may have more than two ribs or guards, a a, and more than two hinges; but the latter number is preferred, as it gives all necessary liexibility to the leaves without impairing the appearance of the book.

I claim as my invention- 1. An album orlike book composed of leaves having two hinges, fr', between the back ofthe book and the main sheet A ofthe leaf, as set forth.

2. A leaf for albums or like books, said leaf having two ribs or guards, a a', with liexible connections w', as set forth. v

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ANDREW J. MEGEE.

Witnesses:

HARRY SMITH, HENRY HoWsoN, Jr. 

